magpie

magpie lets coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code use models from many providers through one app.

  • Desktop · API
  • Verified 20 Oct 2026

What magpie does

It lets you add model providers once and choose any of them as the model for an agent.

Key features

  • Local gateway that translates between OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini API formats
  • Smart routing that picks which account answers each request
  • Failover that retries a request on the next account before the agent sees an error

Pros

Pros

  • Open source under the MIT license, with source on GitHub.
  • Does not read API keys from environment variables; only keys added in the app are used.

Where magpie is listed

magpie is listed under AI coding agents in AI coding tools.

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